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Psychology Today: There’s a revolution going on. And it’s not being fought with guns and bombs but with garden-variety fruits and vegetables.

Call it the “smart-food revolution.” It has to do with the growing body of research showing that everyday produce can function medically to prevent, treat and even cure common diseases.

Many green grocery items contain goodies that can help ward off the diseases of aging, such as cancer and heart disease, and slow down the aging process itself. Some of them can even halt the brain deterioration and memory loss that tends to accompany aging.

All together, the findings suggest that relatively simple diet modifications can slow down the normal process of brain aging and memory impairment. And delicious little blueberries may be the smartest food of all. more…

Should you buy that ticket now or wait? FareCast shows you the price history on US tickets and forecasts if the price is going up or down and suggests when you should buy your ticket. FareCast even shows you how the price changes depending on time of day you’re willing to fly. Currently FareCast is in beta and only offers departure airports Boston and Seattle, but will eventually incorporate cities nationwide.

FlySpy, also currently under development, will help people buy the lowest priced airplane ticket for a given destination: You specify your departure city and destination city, an optional departure date and how long you want to stay. The results show a graph of flight prices over the next 30 days so that you can quickly determine which days are the cheapest to fly. Then you book your flight simply by clicking on that point in the graph.

I can’t wait till one of these sites goes worldwide!

As with most web-based email options, the login phase of your gmail session is encrypted and protected from prying eyes. However after you’ve been logged in, you’re sent to a non-SSL-encrypted inbox where you, and anyone sniffing your network (like your company’s Network Administrator), can read your mail. This is especially a risk for those of us using WiFi where your information is ripe for the plucking.

A simple solution to the problem for those of us using Gmail is to log into gmail using this url: https://gmail.google.com instead of http://gmail.google.com.
This ensures that the entire process after logging in is encrypted on their secure server.

“It took us 125 years to use the first trillion barrels of oil.

So why should you care?”

www.willyoujoinus.com

I urge you to check out Chevron’s advertising campaign. Wow…

Now anyone who wants highly intuitive and seamless website tracking can get a Google Analytics account without waiting in line by visiting google.com/analytics or by clicking on the “Analytics” tab within AdWords. It’s ridiculously easy to set up and like with most Google products, absolutely free.

Take the tour…

Nice one Nathan! Turns out animals love to get drunk too - especially on my drink of choice.

Can’t see this video? Click here to watch it.

“Reindeer eat hallucinogenic mushrooms more for the high than the nutrition, [Balcombe] argues, and normally carnivorous jaguars sometimes trip on tree bark.” Wired Magazine.

From Wired: How to secure your data

Surveys suggest that 3 out of 4 companies monitor employees’ online activity. Protect yourself from workplace prying by following a few simple rules:

Cover your clacks

If you suspect the man is logging your every keystroke, install Spyware Doctor 3.8. It’ll expose any program running silently in the background while you work. (Note: you may need an admin password to install the app. If your IT department refuses to help, try bribing them with a spool of blank DVDs.)

Surf undercover

Prevent your boss from tracking your daily URL crawl with a Web-based program like The Cloak, which masks the addresses of sites you visit by redirecting your browsing through its domain.

Change up your email

Don’t use your work email for anything other than, well, work. If you want to send private messages over your employer’s servers, set up an encrypted email account with a provider like Hushmail.

IM on the DL

With an admin password, you can download an encrypted service like PSST (psst.sourceforge.net) or a program like Encrypted Messenger, which encodes most IM clients. The quick and dirty way: open an AOL IM account and use the Web-based chat service. With all the Web activity at work, the chance that anyone will notice your texting is small.

Delete Files Forever

You do know that file-recovery software can resurrect everything you just emptied out of your Trash or Recycle Bin, right? It may look as if you’ve removed them from the hard drive, but the 1s and 0s of the so-called deleted files still exist. The only sure way to permanently erase sensitive material is to overwrite the disk space with new data.

PC
Download the free Eraser app, which uses a process rigorous enough to meet Pentagon standards.

Mac
Choose “Secure Empty Trash” from the Finder menu and the skeletons in your hard drive are toast.

Get peace of mind

Still spooked? check out the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s guide to cloaking tools.

And I owe it all to Shawn!

www.programmermeetdesigner.com
“…created to unite programmers and designers because rarely is a person good at both programming and designing. PMD helps programmers and designers partner up to make websites and web applications that look and work great. It also lets entrepreneurs and writers find people to work with.”

Talk about a fantastic idea! So here is my ad:

Designer looking for a Programmer for long-term partnership

Bikely helps cyclists share knowledge of good bicycle routes.

Some of Nathan’s favourite routes

Chapel-Perilous: “Here we have Donald Rumsfeld ADMITTING that Kubrick filmed the fake moon landing…”

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These Levante Geonet Tights are just… sexational!

Just one batch imported from Italy… you could be one of the special few women in the world to wear them. I have a feeling these are going to sell out fast.

Well this is a pretty handy link for those of us who are flying this weekend and those wretched souls who’ve had their flights cancelled and are stranded at the airport right now.

www.sleepinginairports.net
Airports across the world are ranked based on comfort for sleepers along with stories, tips and tricks on getting the best possible sleep in. I’m thinking it might be fun to book myself on a bunch of cheap connecting flights around the world in 80 days.

They have just banned my ultimate peeve!!! I wish someone would do something about it here too…

Advertisers will have to turn down the volume
ROME (Reuters) - Italy’s government plans to clamp down on broadcasters turning up the volume when they show advertisements in order to get viewers’ attention.

Communications Minister Paolo Gentiloni said research showed Italy’s three main channels on average raised the volume on adverts by 50 percent compared with ordinary programming, even though this is banned under Italian law. It is usually done by networks in agreements with advertisers in order to try keep viewers glued to the screen during the publicity breaks.

“We need to stop television advertising that raises its voice,” Gentiloni told a news conference. He said Italy’s media watchdog would set up a fine system before the end of September for those found breaking the law.

We did indeed have a splendiferous evening! Here you can see Niq preparing our kindling…

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